TexMessage: Be the star of Ted Poe’s “I built it” campaign

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Monday, August 24

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It seems that the GOP isn’t done milking President Obama’s “You didn’t build that” gaffe from earlier this year.

Even as Republicans in Tampa gear up for Tuesday night convention session with the theme “We built this!,” Texas Congressman Ted Poe is inviting fellow Texans to tell him what businesses they built or helped built. This call to business owners to tell their story came on Friday through Facebook and Twitter.

Poe would not be the first politician to feature small business owners in a campaign ad, attacking President Obama on his – “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen” – comment. Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign featured a San Antonio entrepreneur Gilbert Cantu, owner of Quality Security Products, in an ad “These Hands: Texas.” Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ted Cruz threw his support behind the ad, saying, “From El Paso to Texarkana, entrepreneurs and small-business owners across Texas know that they built their success with their own two hands.”

Reader Comment of the Day

Another example of the media’s double-standard. Mitt’s birther remark yesterday is already getting more play than Biden’s slavery remark initially did. The media is ultra-defensive for the President in a way that they never been for any president since Watergate.

Today in Texas Politics

On this date in 1837, the original Texas Navy was destroyed when the ships Brutus and Invincible were forced aground near Galveston by two Mexican ships. Lyndon Baines Johnson was also born on this day.